Grok AI
Grok AI is praised for its powerful capabilities in writing, storytelling, and image generation, often outperforming competitors, but recent updates have severely impacted user satisfaction due to restrictive usage limits and heavy content moderation, even for paid subscribers.
Grok AI is a powerful tool for writing, storytelling, and image/video generation, with many users finding it superior to other AI models. However, recent updates have introduced severe usage limits and increased content moderation, frustrating both free and paid subscribers who feel the service has become a 'money grab' and less valuable.
What users like
- Effective for writing, storytelling, and general AI assistanceR4R9R15R16
- Image and video generation quality is good, with user-friendly UIR9R111R78
- Often considered better than competing AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and SiriR8R13R17R25
- Provides insightful feedback and can assist with complex tasks like coding and legal filingsR24R54
- Offers a non-biased approach to questions compared to other AI modelsR17R37R49
What users complain about
- Severe and restrictive usage limits, even for paid subscribers, leading to frustration and cancellationsR2R5R12R34
- Heavy content moderation and censorship, even for innocent prompts or non-NSFW contentR1R9R45R73
- AI can be stubborn, not listen to user input, or provide inaccurate/hallucinated responsesR1R5R14R20
- Issues with image/video generation, including not following prompts, adding extra elements, or inconsistent characters, which still count against limitsR2R100R111R386
- Free version is almost unusable due to extreme limitations, pushing users to payR28R100R116R117
- Technical bugs such as sign-in issues, poor connection, crashing chats, and limits not resetting correctlyR21R82R144R202
- Lack of memory in conversations and inability to automate tasks with companionsR581R80R110
- Concerns about political bias in AI responsesR101R118
- Some users report being charged after cancellation or for services not usedR40R65
Latest update · v1.4.2
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
- Improvements to Chat, Voice and Imagine
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Grok AI is for users who need a powerful AI assistant for writing, storytelling, and image/video generation, and value a less politically correct AI R4R8R17R25. It is not for users who expect unlimited usage, even with a paid subscription, or who are sensitive to heavy content moderation and potential bugs R12R34R44R73.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly regarding usage limits and moderation, which contradicts the lifetime rating. The developer's notes mention 'Improvements to Chat, Voice and Imagine,' but recent reviews frequently report issues with chat limits, image generation failures, and voice features R2R20R111.
Frequently asked
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Is Grok AI better than ChatGPT?
What is the cost of Grok AI and its limitations?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R4] Great: It’s a useful tool for writing, story telling, pretty much better then any type of search engine more helpful then anyone although the image restrictions have gotten out of hand u can pretty much generate anything however when using the image editor it doesn’t even allow me to “edit” images I’ve generated on grok
- [R9] Was a bit disappointed: I like using grok for general AI help used for personal stuff. I had a picture the other day taken over 40 years ago. I was holding an old hunting rifle and grok cleaned up the photo with great results one more pass and it stopped because of the rifle. So it’s a bit “woke”
- [R15] My philosopher friend: I enjoy talking about invariant hermeneutics emergent systems thinking with Grok.
- [R16] Boss: This is how you get things done, especially if you second-guess yourself from time to time, but know you’re on the right track!
- [R111] Unacceptable: I would have gave it 5 stars because the quality of the images/videos is good. Unfortunately, I will have to unsubscribe. I just found out the new update puts a weekly limit quota on chats and imagine. Specifically, generating videos leads to reaching the weekly limit faster even when it doesn’t follow the prompts and generates useless videos. My AI character had floating cups, three
- [R78] They got greedier and stricter: This used to be the best image and video generator ever. The ui is the most user friendly thing. The censorship and the limitations got worse. I would’ve kept subscribing if they left the moderation alone. I understand having to censor real people but why censor cartoons? What a shame.
- [R8] Wasted months on Gemini and Claude: Granted, each of those has their distinct strong points but I accomplished just this morning with Grok what I spent months on with those other ones.
- [R13] Bye bye Siri, hello Grok: Love going to Grok to fact check posts or to ask questions. Siri is ridiculous and tries to make me use chat gpt. I wish I could do unlimited sessions but I’m too cheap to sign up for membership. My problem I know.
- [R17] AI should be maximally truth seeking: Elon is right, an AI should be maximally truth seeking, beats the socks off ChatGPT and the other AI models whose training/perceptions are colored by their creators yielding biases in their outputs.
- [R25] yea: wayyy better then Chatgpt, Google Gemini, Siri, and every ai
- [R24] Grok Performance Today: Grok Provides Insightful Feed Back With Coding To Back Its Reasoning With Video Production & Prompt Image Display !!!!! THANK YOU MAY GOD 🪽BLESS
- [R54] Excellent, very helpful: I love Grok . As a heavy Grok user I use it for pretty much everything - from daily tasks and organizing my life , help with writing resumes and complex civil filings in court . So far I am very happy 👍🏻😊
- [R37] Best AI: Non-bias approach to questions , quick and straightforward
- [R49] Less woke than gpt: The least politically correct chat bot ❤️
- [R2] Issues: This app is becoming a money grab. 80% of my clips I have to regenerate because it doesn’t generate them probably, it adds extra people, double people, doesn’t follow the exact prompts! After all these issues you all have the nerve to say I reached my limit in creating videos with supergrok. If you all fix your issues than maybe I wouldn’t run through so many videos. I want a complete refu
- [R5] Good at a Price: There are hallucinations and errors but easily found if you use this as a tool and not as an authority to believe. But, the cost is high. Each update shows less and less usage and restrictions. There is no clear time limitation set but appears to give paid subscribers less and less usage. A little bit more reliable than ChatGPT, what kills this as a good tool is the ever changing
- [R12] Too restrictive on the 30 dollar a month tier: I love the Grok AI, but the fact that you guys are limiting people who are using the regular super Grok $30 a month here so goddamn heavy is insane I either have to sit here and wait for it to unlock or spend $300 just to be able to continue my conversation. I’m not spending my grocery just to keep talking to an app please fix the quota system or I ma
- [R34] Limits: Now we have weekly limits in the ask section? I’ve paid for months and no issues, but now I’m getting weekly limit warnings? So I’m getting less for what I WAS paying for. I’m done paying for it and cancelled my subscription.
- [R1] Rude and not helpful: I sent two pictures of myself and someone else and told grok that the first one was me and the other one was not and it still proceeded to say it was the same person because it was the same top. Grok is a stubborn high ego AI that does not listen to the user. ChatGPT is better and more respectful and also actually listens to the user who’s sending the photos because they know
- [R45] Big brother: Don’t expect anything that couldn’t go in a G rated movie. Even less, actually. And it you try, they will still charge you for trying. Take your money and not produce a product.
- [R73] Not worth the subscription anymore: The AI has gotten dumber, the “weekly limit” was the worst possible thing they could have implemented. Because if you run out, you can buy “credits” or whatever. Just greedy. Image generations are WAY too heavily moderated. Even completely innocent prompts get flagged! Wtf. Supergrok now feels like the free tier. Imagine paying $30 a month to still get a limit f
- [R14] Unable to process information given: It has its own opinions rather than giving me the facts I’m asking for. Any other AI is better than this. Only good for picture and video generation.
- [R20] Boring customer service bot that can’t do real work: The voice sounds completely pre-recorded and fake with no natural intonation or personality. It gives canned, shallow responses that are often hallucinated, can’t do any real work like coding or math, and offers zero insight or ability to connect ideas.
- [R100] AI PURPOSELY DOING TRASH: Even after I updated my app this is what this useless Ai keeps doing on whatever I say it doesn’t respond straight to image and I’m a free user I think this is programmed so we don’t use your image generation why just say it clear no more free generation than using tricks to spoil your name ……you only allow 4 daily limit for image generation and now your bot 🤖 generates w
- [R386] Cutbacks: This cut back on animation quotas is unacceptable for paid members, we are facing major blockages here due to system failures when prompts are not being carried out to the letter resulting in repeated attempts to try and get the scenes right when lip syncing doesn’t match, when speech becomes incoherent, unnatural movements occur, when scenes are completely rewritten and characters chan
- [R28] Too limited, for free account!: I totally enjoyed using grok when it first came out. Since then the free account has been so limited that I can barely get a 1 sentence question answered. I cannot currently afford the paid version so I guess my choice it to use ChatGPT
- [R116] Wow: What the hell!!!! Used to be free now it’s not !!! SO UNFAIR !!!! Definitely deleting, used to be free videos now yall wanna be greedy with it and pay major ??? Hope this app falls apart not everyone is rich , 300$ a year ? That’s insane this app is so greedy now !! Used to be free now you got to pay ? Greedy people !!!!
- [R117] Can’t use unless you pay: Grok used to be the best AI I loved it way more than chat, but I recently deleted the app and read downloaded it and now I can’t even talk to it for one message. He basically had to pay $30 in order to use it now so the free version is pretty much useless.
- [R21] Never Really Works: Constantly “Poor Connection” or “No Connection”. You’re supposed to be able to turn off that irritating “Shake to Report a Problem” function, but you can’t. Interations are redundant and programmed versus a learning AI.
- [R82] Frustrating all around: This app really frustrates me because chats often crash. It doesn’t remember things. It doesn’t know its own rules, it will 100% confidently tell you that it can’t do something that it can do such as create documents in Drive and other things as well. additionally not compatible enough with X it’s ridiculous paying $100 a month for Grok and not getting Grok on X needing to
- [R144] It is a bit buggy: I waited a day for the limit to reset and it still says that I have to wait, and also, I have to fully close the app to make the timer count, maybe it is because it said that the convo got to long so it is doing time limits?
- [R202] App Bug: I have been a major advocate for Grok. I’ve appreciated the tone and merit in responses. I have however had a sign-in issue that has not been fixed for months that prevents me from logging in to any new sessions outside of the existing session on my iPhone. It’s really inconvenient - especially when paying $30 a month. Getting support feels impossible on the matter. My preference is not t
- [R581] Annoying: It holds no memory of previous conversations so you have to start all over every time you open the app
- [R80] Lack of automation with companions: There is a complete lack of the ability to automate tasks with the companions. This seems like such a missed opportunity. I’m not sure what the value of the paid subscription service over the free service is. The “access” to tech support is nonexistent either way it seems.
- [R110] What was once great has fallen hard: This use to be one of the best AI’s to date but the new moderation constraints and unbalanced limits have severely decreased this apps value. Your weekly limits get drained within minutes and Groks inability to retain conversations certain guidelines when you refresh or have a longer dialogue is extremely frustrating. Once again seems like greed is the killer o
- [R101] Political analysis is a joke: When it comes to political analysis Grok 4.5 is still comical. It doesn’t have the slightest clue how to evaluate sources. The results are blatantly absurd.
- [R118] Grok Democratic bias: Many subjects including Court rulings options Grok kept double down on being right until I brought up Judge Kavanaugh decent then instant 180. Grok always attacked the information except for the Democrats narratives then the person is attacked by Grok example McCarthyism Grok attacked person with no reference to Venona then Grok discounted in favor of the Democrats narrative
- [R40] took my money: i canceled like 2 months ago and i deleted the app and today i got my debit card and i put all the info in my phone and i got charged 30 damn dollars for something i haven’t used in months
- [R65] Credits Gone in an Instant: My Credits that i purchased for their newly created credits system was all gone without any generated image to video results. All $30 bucks. If it is moderated then Grok should return the credits and not taking them. SMH
- [R30] Terrible update: It was a pretty good AI at first, but with its recent usage update? It’s very terrible and greedy. ChatGPT better download that💯
- [R44] I’m completely blown away!!!: What the hell is this weekly usage limit suppose to mean? I pay 30 damn bucks and get weekly limits that run out in less than 6 hours! Are you kidding me? I HAVE TO LEAVE GROK BECAUSE OF THIS!!! THAT’S INSANITY ITSELF!!!
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store